and congress can easily change a law whenever it wants to but they would have to get with it right now to change it but there are lots of problems that come along with this, chris, and here's just a basic look at it. you know, congress sets the date for electing the electors who elect the president, but it's the states that run elections in the u.s. and there are all kinds of problems. first of all, very few states have a procedure for delaying or suspending elections. florida does. it has a lot of experience with hurricanes, but it's one of the few that actually sets out how you do this. secondly, it's one thing for a state when there's a statewide problem like a hurricane that affects polling places throughout the state but with a national election, sure, you're going to have a large part of the northeast affected by what's left of sandy, but out in the midwest and the west, they felt no experience from this whatsoever. so states in that part of the country probably wouldn't look too kindly on any effort to postpone elections. now, you could also say, oh, we are only going to postpon